All Carl Friedrich Gauss Quotes
- ...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but so-called… Astronomy
- It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have… Act
- My young friend, I wish that science would intoxicate you as much as our good Göttingen beer! Upon seeing a student staggering down a street. Beer
- As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics, the latter is… All
- Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron. Attracts
- If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries. Continuously
- Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems. Asked
- Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard. Discoveries
- A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them,… Additional
- In mathematics there are no true controversies. Controversies
- In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without my having reached… Been
- It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it. All
- Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations. Comparison
- Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy and… All
- Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics. Arithmetic
- Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash… Account
- By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must plainly… Absolutely
- Mathematics is the queen of the sciences Inspirational
- There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation… Attach
- I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics. Infinite
- His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound. Art
- In my opinion instruction is very purposeless for such individuals who do no want merely to collect a mass of knowledge, but are mainly interested… Achievement
- Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders. Each
- It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is true… Add
- There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein. Archimedes
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